[nickcarraway]

You do realize crime has dropped dramatically in the last 25 years?

[DannyTN]

"You do realize crime has dropped dramatically in the last 25 years?"

Yes, I think that's largely due to security cameras. It's just so much harder to get away with a crime today. Thus repeat offences drop because criminals get locked away.

I was thinking this would be a program for places like Detroit. I'm of the opinion that crime spreads if you don't stop it. People from Detroit move to other cities to escape thuggery, but some take their thuggery with them.

The downsides of such a program are many and include...

• As in every government bureacracy, the bureacracy will push to expand to more than 4 cities.
• They'll push to stay in cities longer.
• If cities stopped recording crime to increase funding during the Clinton years, will they report any crime at all, if lower reported crime gets the feds out of their business?
• They'll put criminals in charge.
• Criminals will eventually learn how to evade the surveilance.